Kovacic, Ernst

Vienna

Florian Rosensteiner

Josef Schutz

Violin

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Violin Music

FRIEDRICH CERHA

Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 (1946-47) *

1

I

Lebhaft

2:01

2

II

Langsam, geheimnisvoll

3:06

3

III

Lebhaft

4:08

4

Capriccio (1950) *

3:00

5

Meditation (1948/51) *

4:50

6

Altes Lied (1948/51) *

5:35

Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 (1954) *

7

I

Andante

2:18

8

II

Interludium

2:12

9

III

Allegro

1:55

Deux éclats en réflexion (1956) *

10

No.1

3:10

11

No.2

3:12

12

Formation et solution (1956-57)

8:45

Sechs Stücke für Violine Solo (1997) *

13

No.1 Energisch

1:14

14

No.2 Sehr ruhig

2:14

15

No.3

3:18

16

No.4

7:33

17

No.5 Sehr ruhig

2:47

18

No.6 Energisch

1:23

19

Rhapsodie pour violon et piano (2001)

8:00

TT

62:41

* First Recordings

Kovacic, Ernst violin

Mathilde Hoursiangou piano, 1-12,19

Friedrich Cerha, born in Vienna in 1926, is the doyen of Austrian composers, with a huge catalogue of music to his name. Cerha also trained as a violinist and most of the works in this anthology of his violin pieces were written for himself to play in the 1940s and ’50s, when he was still active as a performer. It begins with his first surviving composition, the Hindemith-like First Violin Sonata of 1947; Stravinsky was another early influence before Cerha found the voice that made him Austria’s leading avant-garde composer. Two later works, from almost half a century on, complete the stylistic trajectory.